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Take your practice further with downloadable recordings of Shinzen's teachings.

The Formula

Duration: 2 recordings: 1) 59 minutes; 2) 78 minutes

During a series of talks at a week-long retreat in June, 2002, Shinzen teaches a formula: E + M + E = I +P (Equanimity + Mindfulness + Experience = Insight + Purification) that reveals something deep and powerful about the psycho-spiritual nature of human beings. While explaining the terms in the formula, he maintains that understanding the meaning of the words grows over time, as meditation contributes to “vertical” learning – that is, understanding the words at deeper and deeper levels.

The Primordial Rhythm of Nature and Practice

The Red Road

Duration: 2 recordings: 1) 71 minutes; 2) 78 minutes

Describes various cultural regions and language families of native North America. Discusses Native American spiritual practices including the sweat lodge, Sundance, vision quest, and pipe ceremony. Shinzen recounts moving stories of his participation in these practices and describes learning to speak Lakota.

The Red Road

The Three Marks of Existence

Duration: 47 minutes

Using the traditional Buddhist point of view, Shinzen talks about the three marks of existence or the three characteristics (Sanskrit, Tri-Laksana) – Impermanence (anicca); Suffering (dukkha); and No self (anatta) To see the world in its true nature is to see these three characteristics inherent within all things.

The Three Marks of Existence

The World's Mystical Tradition

Duration: 47 minutes

With many interesting stories, including some about his teacher Joshu Sasaki Roshi, Shinzen describes the spiritual process and how it is described and understood in different spiritual traditions. Ends with Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem The Buddha In Glory.

The World’s Mystical Tradition

Thought and Compulsiveness - Monkey Mind

Duration: 63 minutes

One of the greatest challenges for people when they meditate is the wandering mind. Shinzen outlines four techniques for working with & monkey mind. This tape also contains information on how to work with compulsive addictive behaviors.

Understanding Impermanence through Effort, Intention and Grace

Using Visions and Hallucinations for Spiritual Growth

Duration: 53 minutes

One paradigm for describing spiritual growth is as a journey from surface (ordinary) consciousness to the Source of consciousness. When traversing this path we pass through intermediate realms in which some people encounter various archetypes (devils, monsters, sages, saints). Tells how a person can relate to these visions and hallucinations in order to grow spiritually.

What is Equanimity?

What is the Self? A Contemporary Metaphor

Duration: 75 minutes

This recording, full of fascinating information, covers how separation leads to oneness; “divide and conquer” strategy; how white (like the limited self) emerges from red, green and blue on our TV screens; and the “nearest exit” strategy in meditation.

What is the Self? A Contemporary Metaphor

What to Expect After a Retreat

Duration: 75 minutes

Describes the “side effects” or “reactions” which might occur as a result of having been mindful and equanimous. The phenomena of “afterglow” and &quot;aftershock&quot; are discussed; why they happen and what to do about them. Contains a brief autobiography of Shinzen and a short history of the practice

Working with Emotional Pain

Working with Obsessive Thinking

Duration: 53 minutes

Shinzen discusses the ‘bête noire’ of meditation – obsessive thoughts. He then gives techniques that could help to deal with our ‘monkey mind’ and ‘thinking voices’ using mantra, vocal labeling, monitoring the talk, etc. Also discussed are obsessive tunes and the driven desires they may represent.

Working with Obsessive Thinking

Working with the Dying 2 CD Set

Duration: 2 recordings 1) 61 minutes; 2) 76 minutes

A workshop that focuses on dealing with the challenges that come up when working with the sick and terminally ill. The first recording begins with a guided meditation, followed by Shinzen’s presentation of his ideas. In the 2 recording, questions and answers discussed are – working with pain; leading someone in a guided meditation; experiencing compassion without enmeshment; working with hope – as well as spiritual preparations; being overwhelmed; dealing with guilt feelings that may arise from not taking on more than you can handle; how to make the dying process an opportunity for optimal spiritual growth and even classical enlightenment.